Outstanding cast, great message, strong language.

The joy of the movie is in the getting there, and Drumline gets so much of the little stuff right that the denouement ends up being nothing less than rousing.

Charles Stone III is a craftsman with brains and taste, an instinctive sense of where to put the camera and the discipline not to belabor scenes.

The main protagonist is incredibly unlikeable and the plot is mindless. I didn't care about any of the characters.